HexBrain

Phabricator · Report #28792

Content Spoofing through URL

Informativestatus
5upvotes
20 Sept 2014disclosed

How it was found

Hello I hope this is upto the level you guys think of accepting reports. Specified content can be injected into the webpage as text using the URL

Consider this https://secure.phabricator.com/diffusion/PHU/browse/master/In%20order%20to%20complete%20the%20sign%20up%20procedure%20please%20visit%20the%20following%20link/www.google.com/%3C----Google-----%3E

This can be misused in a number of ways Attacker injecting text can redirect users to malicious sites Attacker injecting text can prompt users with false messages like to logout or change their passwords

You must have an argument that URLs are displayed in address bars but many browsers do not perform that action especially mobile browsers

Please pay attention to this report.

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